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Blue Hole

Postby LIVE4EVA on Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:21 pm

Hey all.
Just thought i would post 2 of my pics from my trip out to the Blue Hole near Armidale.

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Let me know what you think
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Postby nito on Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:49 pm

cant see the shots live4eva.
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Postby mudder on Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:08 pm

G'day L,

Particuarly like the first shot, nicely framed and composed and the B&W suits the subject matter. Any PP on the image though, dunno if it's just me or not (it usually is :lol: ) but seem to notice some type of halo around the tree foliage and branches???

The second is interesting use of a simple subject, be tempted to throw some sharpening at it to extract more detail from the old log...
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Postby Alpha_7 on Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:50 pm

Hi Lisa,

I really like the first one, and am interested on finding out a little more about how it was taken and any PP that was done.

The second one, to be honest doesn't grab me. I think a different angle may have helped but this composition doesn't do it for me, but the reflections are nice.
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Postby LIVE4EVA on Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:49 pm

Hey guys thanks for the comments but i do have one very newbie question what is PP?
ummm yeah the second one was taken about 5 metres from the edge of the water as i was walking along the tree over the water
Thanks
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Postby Oneputt on Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:06 pm

PP is post processing down with software like Photoshop.

Actually I quite like the second if the overexposed portion at the top of the image was cropped off.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:26 pm

LIVE4EVA wrote:Hey guys thanks for the comments but i do have one very newbie question what is PP?
ummm yeah the second one was taken about 5 metres from the edge of the water as i was walking along the tree over the water
Thanks
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Very sorry, not sure why I got your name mixed up - very sorry about that.
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Postby ozczecho on Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:45 pm

Hi Lisa/Greg :D

I like the composition of the 1st one, but on my crt it looks quite dark...I prefer the 2nd but as Oneputt mentioned needs a crop, maybe just where the trees are reflecting.

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Postby LIVE4EVA on Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:23 am

yeah there is some pp on the first.
just changing it from clolour to the b/w type of effect.
does anyone know what causes the halo effect and how to avoid it.
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